Oh man, these Fang Fang stories always hit like a freight train out of nowhere.
Yeah, these newest declassified docs appear to show that Eric Swalwell's campaign was receiving money from Chinese spies connected to his "friend" Fang Fang.
Here's Just the News:
The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang - also known by her English name Christine Fang - were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.
They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.
Here's a pretty exhaustive list of what we know from these newly declassified docs:
The FBI initially wanted to investigate the congressman for a bribery scheme in which he exchanged donations from Fang for her planting interns in his office, but eventually decided to narrow the case to seek criminal charges only against Fang for making illegal donations to the California Democrat through conduits.
Swalwell admitted to having sex with Fang, his staff placing Fang's interns in Congress and not having a strong enough campaign finance system to detect the straw donations she allegedly passed through U.S.-citizen conduits.
TMI!
The Justice Department declined to prosecute Fang despite strong evidence of the illicit donations after she fled the U.S. as the FBI began interviewing her associates and raided her home. The early steps in the investigation were overseen in part by controversial prosecutor Jack Smith, who would later pursue Donald Trump on criminal charges.
Jack Smith let her and Swalwell off the hook and then tried (unsuccessfully, of course) to flip her!
The FBI was recruiting Fang to be a confidential informant through an undercover agent, assigned her the code name Rusty Thumbs, planned to hire her through a cutout company and was still evaluating her suitability as a confidential human source when they discovered her alleged criminal behavior.
The FBI knew early on during the recruitment that Fang was tied to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing's notorious intelligence service. The bureau also identified her parents as MSS agents, knew she was raising money for California Democrats and was willing to use sex as a means of getting ahead in the world of U.S. politics.
No wonder the Dems MeToo'ed Swalwell when he was the favorite to be California's next governor!
This guy was apparently giving favors to a Chinese honeypot in exchange for campaign cash.
The FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships at his offices in exchange for campaign contributions. The FBI identified Fang 'Christine' Fang, a Chinese national, as the alleged facilitator of this exchange and alleged she employed conduits to route illegal donations.
'Investigation has revealed Fang "Christine" Fang, a Chinese foreign national residing in the United States, is the facilitator of a scheme to trade access to Swalwell and internships in his congressional office in return for campaign contributions […]' the memo reads. The FBI specifically gathered evidence that Fang 'used conduits to conceal herself as a prohibited Foreign National source,' for illegal campaign contributions 'at least twice in 2013 and at least two more times in 2014.'
The agents found that the 2013 conduits 'trace to Fang herself,' making them an 'illegal source of campaign contributions.'
And nothing at all came of this.
Swalwell has been put out to pasture, but has faced no criminal charges for his dalliance with a Chinese spy.
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